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The cross is not just a badge to identify us...it is also the compass which gives us our bearings in a disoriented world.

John Stott

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John Stott
Age: 90 †
Born: 1921
Born: April 27
Died: 2011
Died: July 27
Anglican Priest
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Missionary
Theologian
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London
England
John Robert Walmsley Stott
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So, because in no other person but Jesus of Nazareth did God first become human (in his birth), then bear our sins (in his death), then conquer death (in his resurrection) and then enter his people (by his Spirit), he is uniquely able to save sinners. Nobody else has his qualifications.
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A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on
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Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet they cannot live together in harmony
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Good works are indispensable to salvation - not as its ground or means, however, but as its consequence and evidence.
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Prayer is the very way God Himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of Him and our humble dependence on Him.
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Word and worship belong indissolubly to each other. All worship is an intelligent and loving response to the revelation of God, because it is the adoration of His name. Therefore, acceptable worship is impossible without preaching. For preaching is making known the name of the Lord, and worship is praising the name of the Lord made known.
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Saving faith is resting faith, the trust which relies entirely on the Savior.
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Moved by the perfection of His holy love, God in Christ substituted Himself for us sinners. That is the heart of the cross of Christ.
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God continues to speak through what He has spoken.
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Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins it is itself the essence of all sin.
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The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.
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All worship is an intelligent and loving response to the revelation of God, because it is the adoration of His name.
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Theology is a serious quest for the true knowledge of God, undertaken in response to His self-revelation, illumined by Christian tradition, manifesting a rational inner coherence, issuing in ethical conduct, resonating with the contemporary world and concerned for the greater glory of God.
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The gospel creates the church, which spreads the gospel, which creates more churches, which in turn spread the gospel further ad infinitum.
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We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.
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What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.
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All of us have inflated views of ourselves, especially in self-righteousn ess, until we have visited a place called Calvary. It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size.
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We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others.
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We are sent into the world, like Jesus, to serve. For this is the natural expression of our love for our neighbors. We love. We go. We serve.
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God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.
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